While lifestyle choices, including diet and activity level, play an important role in a person’s risk of obesity, genetics can also shape natural tendencies toward weight gain or loss. In fact, genes ...

Your body is basically a walking library of 37 trillion cells, and inside each one is a complete copy of your genetic instruction manual. Think about that for a second. That’s like having the entire ...

This study abroad program is designed to explore the intersection of genetics, culture, ethics, and public policy in a global context. London and Scotland offer uniquely rich educational environments ...

In biology classrooms across the world, students learn to roll their tongues. It’s almost a rite of passage, often folded into a lesson about Mendelian genetics. It’s supposed to be a simple ...

Political leaders like United States President Donald Trump and business oligarchs like Elon Musk have increasingly suggested that human behaviour and social outcomes are rooted in genetics. Trump has ...

As I suggested in previous posts, many media, popular science, and official pronouncements about genetics, epigenetics, and genomics are sometimes at best misleading, and at worst, down-right wrong.